3. John Luther Adams: A composer’s dialogue with place

WHAT’S IN THIS VIDEO: I’m a control freak. I use mathematics, notation, many different tools to get to specific things. But music leads me into broader territory. In the process I learn to give more and more away. I embrace this dissonance. I’ve always wanted to embrace the sensuous and the formal. In a way this might appear to be a contradiction but I’m interested in embracing both.

This Class: Music and Place

This class is made up of nine videos (from 2-7 minutes in length each) and four Listen & Dos. You can do them sequentially or in whatever order you wish. Discussions are attached to each segment, and there's an open thread discussion below in this column. You can hear excerpts from most of the pieces from this year's festival here.

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Next Class

Class #3: Dance and Music, a Love Story (It’s a little more complicated than that)
For many, it’s tough to imagine dance without music; the two are inextricably linked. So does dance come out of music? And if so, is dance a subordinate art? Or is it a more subtle than that – a collaboration, a partnership or dialogue? We’ll explore the relationship.
(class goes live May 29, 2013 @noon PDT)

About OjaiU

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